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Be it known that I, ELIAS C. PATTERSOALbf Rochester, Monroe county, State of New York, have invented` a. new and useful and improved Wire and Picket-Fence; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference b eing had to the accompanying-drawings. Y

Figure 1 is a side view of' iny fence. Y

Figure 2 gives a view of one picket, with slotsv in which the wire is placed.A

In these drawings,"A is the post;` B are the pickets; C is the wire; VD are the slots; E represents the wires crossing each other, end attached together by means of wire wound around them both; F represents thewire attach/cd tothe main posts.

T0' enable others skilled inthe art ef menufsoturin'g-myt'ence, I willexplain its construction.l

4I use ordinary-sized posts, set in the ground ten or twelve feet apart. Through these po'sts I put holes for the wire to pass through, as represented byletter. F. i

I use two wires et each end and on both sides of each picket, making for wires in a.' each wire crossing, and at same time drawing opposite ways .against each other, same strain'oneach side of the pickets, which, with oncwire ateach end. of the side of pickets, cannot be given.l p 1 o ltighten .the fence, I'use a piece of wire, passing around both wires atV the pointwliere the wires cross `"(No. 10 or 12 wire,) as shown in iig. 1, giving the leach other, as shown in g. 1 by letter E.

Letter C, in fig. 1, representsthe wire as placed in the fence, on each sideof the picket, against and crossing the other, giving it greater strength and durabili one at each 'end, -and both on the same side of' the picket.

Now, I do not claim a fence of pickets or slats provided with oblique notches apart in the successive or adjacent pickets, and on thesame side of each; but

What IdoY claim, Aand desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l A wire and picket-fence in which each picket is providedw'ith two or more pairs of oblique slots or notches for wires, at different heights, the. notches ofeuch pair in the same picket being also at dierent heights on opposite sides, and inclined, the one upward and the other downward, the pickets being so arranged that each wire of a p`air shall alternate from a high to a low notch, andvzce versa, in the successive-pickets, and the two wires of each pair being tightened by being seized together at their crossings, 'substantially as described.

' ELIAS .0. PATTERSON.

one wire drawing ty than can begivc'n with only two wires,

, made at dierent distances Witnesses: Y I

Y Jonn M.' BilnnwELL,

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pickets, and both on the same- 

